Medical progress

Modern methods of diagnostics are one of the reasons why the treatment in France is so efficient.

The newest multiparameter and multimodal systems let reveal a cancer tumor and recognize its type at the earliest stages, which gives the possibility to make the exact diagnosis, equal to that received due to a histologic study.

The surgery method without a cut assures the highest degree of safety in the complete cancer removal.

Its application allows preserving the vital physiological functions with the minimum blood loss. Therefore cancer treatment in France is recognized not only as the most effective one, but also as the one having the fewest number of negative consequences.Since 2003 the anti cancer program in France has received financing of some billions euro. They are used for new technologies and equipment, research, as well as treatment with the medicines inaccessible outside of France. The cost of such treatment for one patient can exceed 1 million euro. Treatment in France heals 70 % of people suffering from cancer. All the surgical interventions are carried out at the highest professional level. The computerized navigating systems for orthopedic surgery (prosthetics of a hip joint) and blood recirculation system are used. Another example of medical progress is laparoscopic surgery which has been widely recognized throughout the world during the last decade. It was invented by a French surgeon Palmer who introduced it in 1940-1950 in gynecologic surgery in Paris. It is the French surgeons who teach this new discipline at Cambridge, England, because even nowadays French laparoscopic surgery is the most advanced one in the world.